5 minute freewrite 2706 prompt king of fools
This is my post for #freewriters 2706 prompt king of fools hosted by @mariannewest
Today was the day that I have been having high anxiety over all week. You know about the MRA and it saying I did not have any blockage, but the doctor's office wanted to schedule an angiogram and put a stent in me because they say I have a blockage. They told me the doctor looks at the images and not what someone wrote when they read the MRA. I found it odd to have two different results and questioned if they got my results mixed with someone else's, they said no.
They told me this last Monday, and today I was able to see the doctor. I told him about how I was playing with different head positions while taking my blood pressure. With my head turned to the left, the blood pressure in my left arm was 135/62, and with my head to the right, the right arm was 118/78, and with my head straight, the left arm was 136/65 and the right was 138/72. He said the blockage would make my right side less with my head turned.
He said he was going to take my blood pressure and told me to hold my head straight, then he tried to take it with my head turned, and I had one of those episodes that starts with the tingling on the left side of my head, and I started falling to the left. This was the first time I was able to make it do that, and I was glad a doctor could see it.
I asked if a blockage would cause the tingling on my head and how it travels down my arm and I fall, he said a blockage will not cause this. I knew then that I was back to square one. He also told me the blockage was not going to make me have a stroke and asked who told me that. I named three doctors who told me that I have a good chance of having a stroke every time it does this. He said I had no more of a chance of having one, no more than he did or my husband does. This eased my mind some, but I am wondering about this doctor. He is supposed to be good at what he does, he is a vascular surgeon.
Now I am sitting here, and I feel like I am the king of fools for thinking "they" found my problem, and even though I did not want to have another angiogram, I had made peace with it and knew I had to have it done. As it turns out, I would have gone through another angiogram plus having a stent put in, and I would still have the same problem.
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I'm sorry you are going through this. I wish it to resolve very quickly. Maybe it's just a bit of anxiety. Try homeopathic Ignacia 30 or 200c, twice a day. Most good health food stores will have it, and it's not expensive.
Thank you, I was having high anxiety over having the angiogram because of the pain and the way I was treated with the last one. I was eating edibles but my doctor said he would not give me my pain meds if I kept taking them. They were helping with anxiety, depression, and spasms.
Those are pretty important symptoms to manage! Do the pain meds help with those symptoms too? I'm so sorry. Getting medical treatment for just about anything is torture these days.
No the meds do nothing for that, they barely help with the pain, I have been on the same kind and strength of pain meds for over 30 years.